austérité

\ɔs.te.ʁi.te\

/\ɔs.te.ʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“austérité” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,197. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,197
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rigueur des pratiques et des doctrines religieuses, mortification des sens et de l’esprit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-austerite · austérité · French

austérité · rank #8,197 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,197
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH audit

Nearest frequency peer: audit (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « austérité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « austérité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

austérité vs autorité
78% similar
austérité vs Austerlitz
60% similar
austérité vs altérité
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for austérité
PropertyValue
Headwordaustérité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔs.te.ʁi.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,197
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « austérité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).austéritése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « audit » (#8,196), « aéronautique » (#8,198), « attendons » (#8,195). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « austérité » est au #8,197. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around austérité (IPA \ɔs.te.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,197 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for austérité, with forms such as "asutérité", "ausstérité", and "austerite". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "autorité", "Austerlitz", "altérité", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is austérité, spelled A-U-S-T-É-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rigueur des pratiques et des doctrines religieuses, mortification des sens et de l’esprit.
  2. 2
    Sévérité.
  3. 3
    Dépouillement ; laideur ; froideur.
  4. 4
    Politique budgétaire visant à réduire la dépense publique ou à accroître les prélèvements obligatoires.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how austérité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] par ce Temple sacré, je te jure que, excepté toi et un petit nombre de mes frères qui conservent encore l’ancienne austérité de notre ordre, je n’en vois aucun digne de ce saint nom !
  2. Des comtes et des palatins embrassent la vie cénobitique. Or, cette vie exige une austérité décourageante.

This word in other languages

austerity(English)austeridad(Español)Strenge(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asutérité
  • ausstérité
  • austerite
  • austréité
  • austtérité
  • austéirté
  • austéritté
  • austériét
  • austérrité
  • austértié
  • ausétrité
  • autsérité
  • uastérité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of austérité - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

asutérité2ausstérité1austerite2austréité2austtérité1austéirté2austéritté1austériét2
Edit distance from "austérité"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "austérité"?
"austérité" is spelled A-U-S-T-É-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔs.te.ʁi.te\.
What does "austérité" mean?
As a noun, "austérité" means: Rigueur des pratiques et des doctrines religieuses, mortification des sens et de l’esprit.
What words are commonly confused with "austérité"?
"austérité" is commonly confused with "autorité", "Austerlitz", "altérité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "austérité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "austérité" is \ɔs.te.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "austérité" come from?
"austérité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "austérité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

attendons#8,195bancaires#8,199atteintes#8,194adhérents#8,192

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

étranges13 variantscroisière13 variantsdésaccord13 variantssacrifier13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list